Hunter's Moon

Mal' Kia clenched his fangs as the ooman on his back shift his weight again. Though Kia was one of the stronger warriors, the ooman's weight was almost too much.

Sera saw this strain in the xeno and stroked Mal' Kia shoulder and mentally thanked him. It took a LOT of convincing for Justin to be a foot near Kia, let alone be on his back.

Sera was glad when both finally settled down.

They all knew that Justin was in no condition to walk after the accident, and though Sera was strong she knew she would not be able to hold Justin's weight long enough to get him out, so it was up to Kia to carry him.

"This way" he hissed, bumping Sera's shoulder and walked down a different tunnel. He could feel his brothers' presence all around him and he only wanted his ooman to get out here soon as possible.

Sera jogged beside Kia, her pistol out and ready. They were about to turn down a different tunnel when a hiss made the two stop in their tracks.

Out of the dark a xeno drone seemed to crawl right out of the wall. It hissed as it glanced at Kia, completely confused why his brother was helping these oomans.

Kia instinctively hissed threateningly, and grabbed Sera waist in a protective way.

Just as the other xeno went to throw itself at the group, an enormous roar ripped though the air, echoing though the mine tunnels.

"Stone!"

Sera gaped as the Yautja warrior jumped on the Xeno's back and nearly twisted its head off its neck. The warrior threw the dead drone away in disgust and slowly turned its head to the female's soft voice.

"Sera stay away from it!" Justin yelled for his girlfriend, fearing for her, as she walked towards the giant.

Stone glared at the ooman male that was placed on Mal' Kia's back. He didn't like the tone of voice he had with the female, even if he was scared. But he did have to admit it was quite an odd site.

The large Yautja looked at the female as she walked up next to him, making silent clicking sounds.

"You are unharmed young one" his voice rumbled and he lifted her chin slightly, examining her. His eyes narrowed slightly behind his sliver mask, but no one saw because of his dark visor.

Sera's hand suddenly came up laid on his. The girl nodded "I'm fine. Let's just get out of here."

Stone jogged close to the girl's side, he didn't make any protest when the ooman elected the now rogue xeno to lead them though the dark channels of the hive.

Honestly the Yautja warrior wasn't worried bout that. And he wasn't worried of himself being attacked. But he was worried about the ooman female.

She had become important to him during this hunt. When he had heard her screams for him, everything had stopped for him. In the Yaujta's eyes she had become a true warrior with him.

"Kia, which way now?" Sera looked around the tunnels, listening and watching for movement. As the xenomorph began to move they started hearing screams from Justin.

"Please let me down! Let me down! Please!" Justin started screaming and trying to get off Mal' Kia.

All of them looked at curiously as Sera quickly pulled Justin off Mal' Kia and looked him over.

He was fine. "Justin, what the fuck? What's wrong?"

Then she felt her pistol ripped from her.

Justin had it and held it up to Stone and changed it to Mal' Kia who only hissed in challenge.

"Justin are you fucking crazy? These guys is the only one who can get us out of here! Alive!"

Stone growled savagely as the ooman pointed the weapon at Sera. "You just like being around these Freaks! These Monsters! Look around you Sera! They killed our families and friends!"

Sera stared at Justin and the gun. "Sera you are coming with me now. We will leave these Things to their…whatever. And we can get the military involved to destroy all these guys then you and I can get away from all this."

"They were involved! And they were killed! And I know you are scared but there is no need for this. Now just give me the gun before you or someone else gets hurt…" Sera crept close to take the gun but a shot rang out.

Roaring, Stone pushed her aside and took the bullet in his chest as Mal' Kia caught her. The giant brought up his spear but stopped as he heard hiss behind Justin.

And Sera watched from Kia's protecting arms as a bladed tail busted through Justin chest and blood splatter everywhere.

The gun fell from his hands as he looked down at where his heart should have been, but there was only a hole. Justin opened and closed his mouth before falling to the floor.

The Yautja warrior attacked the alien and threw it into the wall. He roared and withdrew his wrist blades.

Sera only stared blankly at Justin's dead body, blocking out the fray in the background. Nearly 3 years they known and loved each other, and he had tried to kill her. She shook her head and felt a pain in her chest and bit back tears.

"You alright young one?" Stone asked and knelt down beside the xeno and the girl.

Sera nodded and stood wiping her tears and grabbed her pistol back. She found new strength as she looked at her only friends now.

Stone touched her shoulder gently, as she gingerly touched his wound. His blood was neon colored green nearly like a xenos but not acid. He groaned painful but seemed to purr.

The young female looked at Yautja warrior. Stone knelt down beside the fallen hard meat and broke one of its fingers off, and dripped its claw in the acidic blood.

"What are u do-" Sera started but stopped as the giant began to take out tubes that connected to his mask. It let out a hissing sound like air being released.

Slowly he pulled off his mask and reveled his true face to the girl. She gasped and stared at him but not with fear but wonder.

He held up the serpents finger and marked his forehead and mask with a mark of his language. Then pointed it towards her, which caused Mal' kia to snarl slightly. But Stone only stared the female, unable to speak in her language without his translator.

Stone's gold eyes stared into her silver ones. She knew what he was offering her. Like him, the right to be a true warrior, in the eyes of his species.

Sera moved her head slightly so he could permanently burn the mark upon her flesh. He choose the right side of her chest would be good enough. The mark was painful but she felt proud wearing it.

"Thank you"

Stone gave an odd alien smile and replaced his mask then turned to Mal' Kia who swished his tail in annoyance. "May we leave now?..." he growled his thoughts to Sera.

"Must destroy hive" replied Stone simply and showed a hand signal to his wrist band he played with all the time.

Sera narrowed her eyes and tilted her head at the giant warrior, "That's a bomb isn't it?"

Stone nodded again. "Must finish mission"

Sera smirked and cocked her pistol, "Then let's go kill some bugs"

Instead of making their way out of the mines, Mal' Kia lead them deeper into hive to find the Queens chamber. Along the way Sera that to resort to brute strength when she ran out of clips and bullets. Stone had quickly made weapons out of parts of dead the Xeno's they killed. And she was lucky enough to find a bandolier with still some grenades, from one of the unfortunate army men.

Sera growled in anger slashing serpent after serpent down along side her comrades. The full blooded Yautja warrior and Rogue Xenomorph fought with her and protected her when she needed rest.

When they found Queen she was surrounded by hidden Warriors and Drones and even eggs she continually kept laying. Sera breathe caught in her throat.

The Queen was like Mal' Kia. She had a deadly beauty to herself. And she was huge compared to all the other xeno's. Dark black and was like she wore a crown around her elongated head. She was utterly beautiful besides the fact of her killing the entire town in which Sera lived.

The Huge xenomorph hissed at the 3 intruders.

"GET OUT!" Sera could some how hear her scream, she could feel the queens distress.

"Come and get me bitch!" Sera spat and threw a couple grenades into the rows of eggs.

The xenos all screeched in pure rage as the eggs exploded and set fire. Stone set his bomb quickly and threw it into the nest before the 3 rogues made a break for it with a horde of pissed off xenos and one big mother after them.

"How long was that bomb set off for?" the female panted as she ran next to the giant.

He only grabbed her and swung her on his back and picked up speed as more and more hard meats joined the chase. In the distance they could hear the Queen coming to deal with them herself.

Mal' Kia lead them through a opening outside of the mine just as the Yautja bomb went off, which gave off a blue glow and huge blast that threw them all to the ground.

Sera groaned and looked back at the mine and saw nothing but landslides of rocks crashing down onto were the entrance should have been.

"Its all over.." She laid her head down when she found herself on top of something.

Stone was lying under her with his arms around her waist. He had protected her when they had hit the ground. He looked very beat up and had many wounds from this night.

Mal' Kia on the other hand didn't look bad since he regenerated, but Sera could tell he was in pain somehow, somewhere.

Now Sera, she was in pain. Her chest was killing her, at first she thought it was cuz of her loosing Justin but she knew now this was a different kind of pain. And her wounds were starting to hurt and become a lot more noticeable.

"Sera" the Yautja warrior groaned as he heard the female gasp and twist in his arms.

"God it hurts!" she snarled and crawled off Stone before spitting up blood.

Mal' Kia hissed lightly before crawling over to her and looked at the Yautja. While Sera painfully gasped for breathes. They both nodded sadly.

Sera began to understand.

"Stone. There must be a way to stop this" she said through her clenched teeth and holding her chest.

The warriors only shook their heads.

"If you knew this why didn't you just kill me before?" Sera screamed in pain, blood erupted from her mouth, some stained the ground and rolled down her chin.

Stone looked away. He couldn't answer, he wanted to but he just couldn't find the right words. He wanted to comfort the young female but love and comfort wasn't something he knew of. As did Mal' Kia, he helplessly watched as his ooman was tore apart from the inside by his soon to be new Queen.

Sera started to scream as the pain became so intense, she could feel the baby xeno within her chest. It was moving around and eating away at her chest so it could bust out.

She finally felt her bones break as it broke through. Blood sprayed as a little head squirmed around her chest.

As she slowly slipped into the dark, she heard screeching and saw a ship with Yautja warriors appear out of thin air.

"Stone…" But as soon as the warrior came to her she was gone…